Last week, Raptors coach Dwane Casey said he wanted to start zeroing in on a playoff rotation by using the last few games as a dry run. Well, we are there, or close enough, so we should start to be able to draw some conclusions.

Alas, these things are not necessarily clear. Most glaringly, Kyle Lowry is still not playing, so Casey can only fine-tune his rotations so much, knowing that approximately 38 of those postseason minutes per game are currently unaccounted for. As well, the Raptors have no idea who they will play, meaning they can only guess at where there positional needs will lie.

Add that to the inconsistency of their role players, many of them young, and figuring out how a regular rotation might look is a near impossibility right now. That was evident in the Raptors’ 108-90 loss in Indiana to the Pacers on Tuesday, a game in which they let a 19-point lead slip away rapidly.

Assuming Lowry is back and has no conditioning issues, there are four...

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